This week’s Misinterpretable Study Title of the Week is … ‘Extraction of Eyes for Facial Expression Identification of Students.’ The paper, in the International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST), 2(7), 3024 – 3029. is authored by Dr. G.Sofia M.C.A,M.Phil.,(Ph.D) and Professor Dr. M.Mohamed Sathik, M.Sc., M.Phil., M.B.A., M.Tech., M.S., Ph.D. whom we recently featured […]
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Improbable Research on “Science Friday” today: Faces
I’m going to be on NPR’s Science Friday program again today, discussing Chernoff faces. This will be in Hour 2 of the program, in the final ten minutes. Listen on an NPR station, or online. Here’s Herman Chernoff‘s original study [with a link to a PDF of the entire thing]: “The Use of Faces to […]
Faces that look like dishes
Kitchen utensils are not infrequent medical metaphors. When some people look at other people’s facies, they see dishes – the dishes used for dining. From as early as the 1950s faces like dishes were already in the medical literature: “The nasomaxillary epithelial inlay for dish face deformity. Converse JM, Jeffreys FE. J Oral Surg (Chic), 1951 9(3):183-7.” […]
Pattern recognition: Similar composers & actors
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra is assembling a collection of photos of composers and actors who physically resembled each other. The entire collection is on the orchestra’s web site. Here’s a small sampling: (Thanks to investigator Charles Krause for bringing this to our attention.)